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 Candy Box Favours
Miniature boxes and bags filled with candy (esp. chocolate!) are a very traditional wedding favour. Here's a few ideas to give it a gothic flair.


Box Favours
Materials:

  • medium or lightweight cardstock
  • rubber stamps and ink or fabric or paint
  • glue
  • ribbon
  • dried or silk flowers (optional)
In the rubber stamping section of many craft stores, you'll find templates for small cardboard boxes. Some stores even sell precut boxes that you can decorate and put together. It's usually less expensive to buy either a template or one of these precut boxes, and use it to make copies on your own cardstock.

Make the box according to the template. Before gluing together, decorated the box with rubber stamps or cover with fabric or paint it. Then glue it together, and add a touch of ribbon or tiny flowers to the outside. Fill with candy.


Coffin Favours
Materials:

  • medium or lightweight cardstock
  • fabric or decorative paper
  • glue
  • dried or silk flowers (optional)
Some may consider coffins a bit too morbid for a wedding, but if you know your guests won't be offended, make little coffin shaped boxes give these as favours to your guests. You might also decorate the coffin with tiny flowers and include a slip of paper inside printed with a poem/song lyric about love lasting beyond death, just to make it more romantic.

Sparky has very detailed instructions on how to make a coffin-shaped purse -- just follow this to make the box. Make the candy boxes smaller than the purse example. You can paint it or cover it with pretty paper instead of fabric.

If time permits, you can wait till Halloween and purchase small coffin shaped boxes at party supply stores or from Oriental Trading Company.






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